From the frontlines: Sean Smith's war photographs – in pictures

From the frontlines: Sean Smith's war photographs – in pictures

From Afghanistan to Congo, Guardian photographer Sean Smith brings us the human face of modern warfare – soldiers and villagers whose lives have been caught in the crossfire. An
exhibition of his work is currently on at King's Place in London, to accompany the publication of
his new book, Frontlines

Aitaroun, Lebanon:

Ali Sha'ita, 12, comforts his mother in the wake of an Israeli air attack on the vehicle in which he and his family were fleeing the village of Et Tiri, Lebanon, 2006Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

US soldiers from the Second Stryker respond to an IED attack on a Bradley fighting vehicle, which killed six US soldiers and a translator in the Sunni neighbourhood of Al-A'amiriya, Iraq, 2007Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian